indevelopment

Posted 06 July 2012 - 07:38 AM

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Work computer, though I get to upgrade soon.

Note the 32bit windows

My second-best printer has no 64 bit drivers which is a real cow. I'll be moving up to 64 bit though (need/want the RAM) and will have to run the xp-mode to get said printer to function for me. I don't blame microsoft, I blame Fuji Xerox for this.

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indevelopment

Posted 06 July 2012 - 06:51 PM

Why bother with 6GB of RAM if only x32 Windows? Was that your decision?

I've never really had good luck with XPMode itself, but once you have it set up, you can install VMWare Player and convert the VM over to that, which I've found is a LOT better than standard XPMode.

Also have you checked recently for the drivers? I notice that's an older model PC, and I know that with Win 7's popularity increasing, the driver support has improved a lot.

Trying to think when I got that machine, I think it was mid 09 and is one of those boards that have RAM in clusters of 3. Came with 6GB, couldn't be bothered taking the unused out because I had nothing else to put in to!

With the print driver, yeah there's nothing. I recently setup the first 64 bit machine we have at work (maybe 3 months ago) - I wanted to test it one someone else's machine first. We've got 8 high end printers of various description and although the printer in question is only 2006 technology it just is not being supported beyond the 32bit level. And just remembered now that the 64bit 7 only prints to a HP wide format via a network share to mine :/ So annoying.

But so is having a co-worker that has an SSD and 16gb ram and I don't!

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karnophage

Posted 07 July 2012 - 02:05 PM

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This is my desktop. Gets me by on most things, however you can tell how it's grown from basically being a net-top to being able to handle games and the such. Two SSD's, one for the OS and one for SWTOR. The AMD Cpu allows me to "Crossfire" with the internal GPU and the external 6870, which is kinda cool.

pchan

Posted 16 August 2012 - 11:38 AM

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(Keep in mind that this machine is about 4 years old - just upgraded from crossfire 4870's to 6870's)

Well, that revealed some interesting things.1) According to CCC, crossfire IS enabled. Why wouldn't I?2) I've clocked my CPU to 3.6GHz. Anyone else having problems with Overclocks being reported correctly?3) I didn't realise it, but for some reason my RAM has been downclocked to 400, when I'm pretty sure I had it set to 1066/2 = 5334) It's not listing my "third" graphics card - well probably because it's just an AGEIA PhysX standalone card.5) The RAID1+0 comprises of 4x500GB WD Blacks. I suppose there's no way it can really determine this.6) Pity it doesn't show all of the peripherals attached to my machine. (edit: It does actually in a tab! But the list is too long . A photo will suffice)

(I really need a better case)

Anyway, looks like there's a lot of 68xx ATi owners. I'm on 6870. Bang for the buck performance with awesome crossfire scalability!